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Warsaw - Page 246
In 1794 he returned to Warsaw to engage in the attempt of Kosciusko, and was appointed general and member of the supreme national council. ...

Naples - Page 306
There is a palace on the island which was occasionally used as a residence by the former kings of Naples. On festivals the women assume the Greek ...

Athens - Page 260
He was a citizen, if not a native, of Athens, and probably flourished about 364 Bc He and ira contemporary Scopas stand at the head of the later Attic ...

Lisbon - Page 186
Having been banished from Lisbon on account of some youthful imprudences, he passed several years at Soura devoted to study. ...

Venice - Page 150
An Italian translation of it by his son was published at Venice in 1476. His Liber de Nobilitate is said to be one of the most finished of his works; ...

Rome - Page 212
At the age of thirty he came for the second time to Rome to place himself under the teaching of Plotinus. Plotinus had deputed the task of initiating ...

Cracow - Page 335
chiefly in two localities in Upper Silesia along the frontiers of Cracow and Russian Poland, and among the mountains in the county of Glatz, ...

Edinburgh - Page 235
In 1543 a post existed by which letters were carried from London to Edinburgh within four days; but this rate of transportation, extraordinarily rapid ...

Leipzig - Page 78
The name of pietists was originally applied in derision to some young teachers of theology at Leipzig, who began in 1689 to deliver ascetic lectures ...

Oxford - Page 66
A charter granted four years later confirmed the privileges of the body, except that graduates of Oxford and Cambridge were permitted to practise ...

Plymouth - Page 142
The point on which they split in Plymouth was a doctrine regarding the human nature of Christ propounded by one of their teachers called Newton, ...

Paris - Page 276
for when he was extremely old the Greeks demanded of him the restoration of Helen, who had been carried away by Paris, and on his refusal to give her ...

Vienna - Page 6
and then journeying through Persia and Circassia, reached Constantinople, from which she returned to Vienna by Athens and Trieste in November, 1848. ...

Bologna - Page 428
but little more is known of the circumstances of his life than that his school at Bologna was numerously attended, and that he died there in 1533. ...

Milan - Page 305
His best works are in the churches and gallery of Milan. Among others may be mentioned a Madonna and Child in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, ...

London - Page 66
persons qualified under the powers formerly belonging to the college to practise anywhere in England except in London or within 7 miles round it) ...

Mainz - Page 288
It is conjectured that he consulted Zeli and Olpe of the Cologne press (who had learned the art at Mainz) and Colard Mansion of Bruges as to the ...

Besançon - Page 73
He was stationed at Besançon at the tune of the outbreak of the French Revolution, and having placed himself at the head of the revolutionary movement ...

Florence - Page 112
and moral effects in Florence in 1348. In the latter half of the fifteenth century it raged in all Europe, and was accompanied with the most terrible ...

Livonia - Page 156
the order was secularized and Livonia annexed to Poland, while the master of the order received Courland as a Polish fief by way of compensation. ...

Jerusalem - Page 82
The Jews likewise were required by the Mosaic law to go up to Jerusalem once a year, at a fixed time, to hold the feast of the passover; and that also ...

Prague - Page 101
un the right bank of the Wottawa, here crossed by one of the finest stone bridges in the country, ,12 miles south by west of Prague. ...

Magdeburg - Page 335
Rocks of the same formation occupy a considerable part of the flatter districts of Prussian Saxony, more especially in the vicinity of Magdeburg, ...

Berlin - Page 364
These works so much increased his reputation that in 16 S 6 he received from Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg, an invitation to Berlin as ...

Münster - Page 369
PUMPERNICKEL, the name given to a coarse brown bread made in Westphalia (more especially in the districts of Münster and Osnabrück) from unbolted rye. ...

Palermo - Page 97
in 1063 destroyed the Saracen fleet near Palermo, in 1096 took part in the first crusade, and in 1117 conquered the Balearic Islands. In the intestine ...

Birmingham - Page 279
He next removed to Birmingham, where he became once more minister of a Dissenting congregation, and occupied himself on his History of the Corruptions ...

Cambridge - Page 66
A charter granted four years later confirmed the privileges of the body, except that graduates of Oxford and Cambridge were permitted to practise ...

Portsmouth - Page 426
to the celebrated Portsmouth cobbler, John Pounds, who about 1819 began to take in the ragged children of the district in which he lived and teach ...

Coimbra - Page 224
He transferred the royal residence from Coimbra to Lisbon. In 1415 he took Ceuta, the first of a series of enterprises which.

Philadelphia - Page 268
or 1706 a presbytery was first formed in Philadelphia, and in 1716 a synod composed of four presbyteries was formed. The body rapidly increased by ...

Memphis - Page 381
Memphis along the western margin of the valley of the Nile for about CO or 70 miles, the last or Gizeh group being but a few miles above Cairo. ...

Hanover - Page 344
Hanover. Frederick died 17th August, 1786. The latter part of his reign had been on the whole one of peace and of great growth and prosperity on the ...

Aix - Page 275
In 1855 he obtained the chair of French literature in the faculty of Aix, but soon resigned, and next year became one of the editors of the Journal ...

Copenhagen - Page 364
with his pupil to Copenhagen; but a war breaking out between Denmark and Sweden, he was arrested, with the whole family of the Swedish ambassador. ...

Barcelona - Page 280
On the occasion of a democratic rising at Barcelona he was sent to restore order, but with little success. The revolt soon began to attain wide ...

Glasgow - Page 176
The railway, along with the tramway-car system, affords ready communication with Glasgow at all hours. The inhabitants are principally employed in the ...

New York - Page 148
Philadelphia, and New York, in which last place he became a contributor to the New York Review, and in 1838 published a story entitled The Narrative ...

Brussels - Page 403
The Prussians and English under Blücher and Wellington lay between the French and Brussels. With the right wing and centre of his army Napoleon ...

Boston - Page 148
Ingram, believes him to have been born at Boston on the 19th of January, 1809. Both his parents died within a short time of each other, leaving three ...

Leeds - Page 279
After a residence of six years at Leeds he accepted an invitation from the Earl of Shelburne, afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne, to reside with him as a ...

Ferrara - Page 144
operations has been to lift the river so high above its natural bed that it is actually on a level with the tops of the houses in the city of Ferrara. ...

Quebec - Page 403
The winter in Quebec is as severe as in the centre of Russia, and the summer is as warm as in the south of Italy. ...

Amsterdam - Page 293
to be turned round again; but it was not till the year 1620 that it was met by the invention of Willem Janszoon Blaeu, a native of Amsterdam. ...

St. Augustine - Page 82
Jerome and Gregory of Nyssa, both of whom lived about the same time as St. Augustine, or rather earlier, zealously endeavoured to check the practice ...

Bristol - Page 277
In 1845 he was appointed one of the commissioners of lunacy, and in consequence removed from Bristol to London, where he continued to reside to the ...

Dublin - Page 120
fineness at the Goldsmiths' Hall, London, the assay offices in Edinburgh and Dublin, and several provincial offices, as in Birmingham and Sheffield. ...

Marseilles - Page 112
vessel imported the plague into Marseilles, which soon spread all over Provence. In 1771 it nearly swept off the whole of the population of Moscow. ...

Arnsberg - Page 337
the sandy and stony ground forms the larger part of the government of Arnsberg, which lies along the Sauerlandgebirge, whence the very name of ...

Cologne - Page 337
Similar ground occurs in the governments of Cologne and Coblenz, and on the plateaux which reach to the Westerwald. ...

York - Page 75
of York, and altering the chronicles of the Scottish kings (which were already crowded with unconscious myths) so as to harmonize with this change. ...

Warrington - Page 279
Here his reputation increased, and in 1761 he was invited by the trustees of the Dissenting academy at Warrington to occupy the post of tutor of ...

Waterloo - Page 403
The English general hearing of the retrograde movement of the Prussians fell back on the 17th on Waterloo, where the decisive battle was fought on the ...

Erfurt - Page 335
in the Saxon government of Erfurt, in the Brocken, forming part of the Harz, and in isolated spots in the vicinity of the town of Halle. ...

Moscow - Page 112
swept off the whole of the population of Moscow. In 1795 and 1796 it extended over the countries on the Turkish frontiers, but was checked by the ...

Galway - Page 406
These colleges are three in number, situated at Belfast, Cork, and Galway, and were chartered in 1849 in pursuance of an act of Parliament passed in ...

Multan - Page 373
The indecisive battle of Chillianwalla was followed by the capture of Multan in January, and the victory of Gujerat in February, 1849, ...

Hackney - Page 279
Price as president of the Dissenting college at Hackney, where he remained some time in the cultivation of his scientific pursuits, until finally ...

Baltimore - Page 148
In 1849 he went to lecture in Virginia, and on his return to New York passed through Baltimore, where he fell in with some acquaintances, ...

Preston - Page 274
worship should be mentioned one of the Roman Catholic chapels, which has a beautiful spire, and rub as the most splendid place of worship in Preston. ...

Hamburg - Page 256
On the closing of the convention he fled to Hamburg, where, in 1798, be published anonymously the first and most famous of his writings, ...

Liverpool - Page 269
PRESCOT, a manufacturing and market town in England, county of Lancaster, 8 miles east of Liverpool. It is long and straggling, and stands principally ...

Basel - Page 98
the great hatchery of Huningue, near Basel, which has, to a great extent, been the means of restocking the once impoverished French lakes and rivers. ...

Haarlem - Page 287
his types from Haarlem; and those writers who have advocated the cause of Laurence Coster as the inventor of printing have generally pronounced ...

Valencia - Page 328
The domain within which this language was spoken extended over the whole of the south of France, aa far as the Loire, and Catalonia and Valencia in ...

Kiev - Page 148
Podolsk is divided into twelve districts, and together with Volhynia in under the military gover-nor of Kiev. The chief town is Kamenetz. ...

Southampton - Page 176
But his strength was unable to undertake so lengthened a journey, and he accordingly proceeded no farther than Southampton, taking up his abode at ...

Perugia - Page 90
PINTURICCHIO, an eminent painter of the Roman school, whose real name was BERNARDINO BEITI, the disciple of Pietro Perugino, was born at Perugia in ...

Padua - Page 167
In 1519 he visited Italy, and fixed his residence at Padua, where he acquired the friendship of several celebrated men, such as Erasmus, Bembo, ...

Ptolemais - Page 358
He carried his arms into Ethiopia, and founded the fortress of Ptolemais to protect the trade in elephants, which were brought from these regions to ...

Albany - Page 252
Poughkeepsie is connected by railroad with New York, Albany, and the eastern states. It was settled by the Dutch at the close of the seventeenth ...

Kiel - Page 5
and after his return practised in Heidenheim till 1797, when he accepted of an invitation to become an extraordinary professor at Kiel. ...

Turin - Page 144
Here it begins to be a majestic stream, and, turning northward, passes Turin. Shortly after it assumes an easterly course, and reaching the confines ...

Naxos - Page 230
Egina, with Dionysos for Naxos, &c. All these stories appear to have arisen from the observation of the tendency of the sea to encroach at various ...

Cairo - Page 330
Burckhardt collected at Cairo a number of Arabic proverbs, which have been published in a quarto volume, under the title Arabic Proverbs, ...

Syracuse - Page 123
Plato's teaching was interrupted by two visits to Syracuse, the first on the accession of Dionysius II., in order to instruct him in philosophy; ...

Leon - Page 227
The dialect of Spanish spoken in Por-tugal at the beginning of the monarchy, moreover, was the Galician, which was also that of the court of Leon; ...

Sheffield - Page 120
fineness at the Goldsmiths' Hall, London, the assay offices in Edinburgh and Dublin, and several provincial offices, as in Birmingham and Sheffield. ...

Norwich - Page 395
This movement, which was headed by Joseph John Gurney, of Norwich, was strenuously opposed by a body of Quakers in America, and the result was a ...

Frankfurt - Page 337
extends along the Oder from Frankfurt hito the north of the government of Potsdam. The same tract, spreading out into a broad zone, occupies a large ...

Belfast - Page 174
These fishes are sold in Belfast in the fresh state, and at the same time at which fresh herrings are sold in the streets and markets. ...

Dover - Page 29
He maintained that England was originally connected with France by continuous land from Boulogne to Dover, and his arguments.

Gloucester - Page 318
1456; Richard, duke of Gloucester, in 1483, before the death of the young princes his nephews, and his own accession to the throne; and the Duke of ...

Bari - Page 246
POTENZA, a province in the Kingdom of Italy, in Naples, bounded on the north by Foggia, on the east by Bari and Lecce, on the south by the Gulf of ...

Islington - Page 365
He was also the artist employed on a Series of Views in Islington and Pentonville, with Descriptions by EW Brayley. ...

Haifa - Page 335
Behind these hills and banks extensive lagoons, on the Baltic coast called Haifa, have been formed, communicating with the sea by narrow outlets, ...

Nashville - Page 174
In 1849 he was succeeded by President Taylor, and in the course of the same year died at Nashville. His talents were by no means of the first order, ...

Bombay - Page 402
carnelians which are sold at Bombay are brought from the province of Guzerat, in India, and the finest pieces come from the Gulf of Cambay. Lapidaries ...

Quito - Page 108
and so thinned the ranks of the adventurers liy its hardships that only eighty Spaniards and the half of the Indians returned to Quito. ...

Calcutta - Page 86
Garrisons were placed in some fortresses, and hostages taken to Calcutta; their other strong places were demolished. ...

Lima - Page 108
After the assassination of Francisco, Gonzalo raised an army and advanced upon Lima to attack Blasco Nunez, the new and unpopular viceroy sent out ...

Don Carlos - Page 21
The Prince of Asturias, heir of Spain, and Don Carlos, heir of Tuscany and Parma, were affianced to two daughters of the Regent Orleans, ...

Panamá - Page 443
he commanded an expedition with a view of attack-ing Panamá; but was recalled by the queen, and soon after incurred her displeasure by an amour with ...

Corpus Christi - Page 306
The most celebrated processions which now take place in the Roman Catholic Church are those of the eucharist on Corpus Christi day, and during the ...

Albuquerque - Page 225
The conquests of Albuquerque and Almeida made him master of numerous possessions in the islands and mainland of India, and in 1518 Lope de ...

Cholula - Page 382
with a coating of stone overlaid with a plastering of lime, and the sides are formed into terraces, as in that of Cholula (which see). ...

Surinam - Page 402
Although large quan-tities of quassia wood were formerly exported from Surinam, an informant of Lindley's stated that he did not hear of a single ...

Otumba - Page 382
They are situated in the centre of the plain of Otumba, to the north-east of the city of Mexico, and are called respectively the houses of the Sun and ...

Milwaukie - Page 418
RACINE, a town in the United States, in Racine county, Wisconsin, on the west shore of Lake Michigan, 18 miles south of Milwaukie. ...

Wellington - Page 403
The Prussians and English under Blücher and Wellington lay between the French and Brussels. With the right wing and centre of his army Napoleon ...